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From: mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Legal initializer?
Keywords: initialization initializer new
Message-ID: <161@mole-end.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 00:48:20 GMT
Organization: mole-end--private system.  admin: mole-end!newtnews
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	class	My_buf
	{
	  public:
		const int size;
		char *const buffer;

		My_buf( int );
	};


Now, is this constructor legal?

	My_buf::My_buf( int sz )
		: size( sz ), buffer( new char[ sz ] )
	{}


cfront (the Glockenspiel port) quietly generates bad code:

	/* <<cfront 05/20/86>> */

		...

	struct My_buf *_My_buf__ctor (_auto_this , _auto_sz )register struct
    My_buf *_auto_this ;
	int _auto_sz ;
	{ ...
	  ...   _auto_this -> _My_buf_buffer = (new char [_auto_sz ]) ...

						^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
						I *knows* this ain't
						legal C ...

Am I doing something patently illegal (in which case I should learn C++ or
shut up) or is this something that should be reported back to The Vendor as
a problem?  (Actually, it's a problem either way ...)
-- 

(This man's opinions are his own.)
From mole-end				Mark Terribile